General references for Boker, see Allibone, Lamb's Biographical
Dictionary, Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, National
Cyclopedia of American Biography, Warner's Library of the World's Best
Literature.
Lawrence Barrett, A Professional Sketch of. By Elwyn A. Barren. Chicago:
Knight & Leonard Co. 1889. (For a review of Barrett's opening in
"Francesca," Philadelphia, see telegraphic report in the New York
_Tribune_, September 15, 1882, p. 15.)
Alfred Bates. Drama. Vol. XX. p. 70.
Biographical Encyclopedia of Pennsylvanians of the Nineteenth Century.
Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Co. 1874. p. 370.
Magazine references to Boker: _Atlantic Monthly_, 65: 427, March, 1890.
_Book Buyer_, 1900, 2147. _Critic_, January 11, 1890; April 12, 1890;
1898, 33: 240. _Harper's Monthly_, 1882, 4: 633. _Harper's Weekly_,
1871, 15: 1173; 1890, 34: 32. _Sewanee Review_ (J.W. Krutch), October,
1917, 25: 457-68.
Biographic du très honorable Georges H. Boker. Ministre des Etats Unis
Amérique auprès de la Sublime Porte. _L'Orient Illustré Journal
Hebdomadaire_, Constantinople, 22 Aug., 1874.
Reception tendered by the Members of the Union League of Philadelphia to
George H. Boker, Minister of the United States to Turkey, Friday
Evening, December 22, 1871. Philadelphia: 1872.
Cambridge History of American Literature. New York: Putnam. 1917. 1:494.
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